100 Years, 2 Blogs: Celebrate With Us
In co-operation with PraguePig.com, Weird Things in Prague – that’s us – is celebrating 100 years since the foundation of Czechoslovakia, in 1918.
We are excited to be offering some extremely attractive giveaways to a handful of selected winners.
The Prizes
1. A bear hug from Karel Gott
This prize has had to be cancelled due to unforeseen technical difficulties.
2. One of four tickets to one of the following cinema screenings of ballet performances or art-themed features:
- The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch, 04.11.2018
- La Sylphide, 11.11.2018
- Don Quijote, 02.12.2018
- DEGAS: PASSION FOR PERFECTION, 16.12.2018
- The Nutcracker, 23.12.2018
These tickets were sponsored by Přenosy do Kin who are offering live cinema events in 12 countries, among them opera and ballet performances, concerts and feature films.
The links above are to Czech pages but you can click on the “Video” tab to see a teaser if (shame on you) you still don’t speak the language.
3. One of three of my audio walking tours through Prague:
These tours are powered by VoiceMap.
4. None of them seems to be the right prize?
Please continue to PraguePig.com where you will find more attractive prizes.
How to Participate
Post a comment below saying which which prize you want (or any) and answer the following question:
What is the weirdest thing you’ve come across in Prague?
And if you like, you can also add a few words of explanation.
The deadline is 12 noon CET on October 28th, based on the time your comment was saved in our database. (Comments will be recorded but need to be moderated. The usual rules for acceptable comments apply.) We will pick the winners based on the originality of their answers. Each person can participate only once. Exemptions are possible for clones. Prizes are non-refundable and our decision is final.
By participating you obviously agree that we might forward your email address to the sponsors so that they can tell you how to claim your prize.
Update
We have selected and notified the winners:
Film Screenings: James, Trey, Caleb, Danut
Audio Tours: James, Trey, Caleb
Congratulations!
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In my first couple of months in Prague I went to a music festival and was confused to hear festival goers in the campsite yelling “Hobnob!” at each other all through the night. For non-English people, hobnobs are a delicious type of biscuit found in English supermarkets. Still, I didn’t understand why Czech rockers were so passionately interested in them, but they certainly have good taste…
I was heading to the pub in Holesovice when a child zipped past riding a pig.
Like Trey, the weirdest thing I have ever seen in Prague is a woman walking her huge pig by my tram stop in Holesovice…
Seen her a few times too :))
Even though it seems ordinary now, the first time I walked past an authentic Christmas market, saw a huge vat of fish, saw a young girl hesitate at the edge then point at one of the fish, then see the shopkeeper scoop it up, slap it on a log, and proceed to hack its head off, right before the eyes of the still-smiling girl, I was gripped by the thought of ” what a weird place I’ve found myself in!”
A couple of weird things seen in my time here in Prague: a guy riding the tram outside eating a kebab and sitting on that piece of iron where trams usually connect together; a homeless guy in the tram throwing his shit on the floor; an old lady high on something that kept masturbating with both hands in the night tram. I would love to see La Sylphide, 11.11.2018 😀